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...Chili Peppers, Bob Dylan, Peter Gabriel and veteran Woodstocker Joe Cocker will perform over the weekend. One aspect of the original Woodstock threatens to repeat itself -- weather forecasters predict on-again off-again thunderstorms that would once again turn the fields of the 850-acre farm into mud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE HAPPENING, REDUX | 8/12/1994 | See Source »

...despite all efforts, the mood was a little shaky. Granted, at the big party a few weeks earlier for some liquor company, there were mud-wrestling drag queens. (No kidding.) But the problem that night didn't seem to be any lack of diversions. The very notion of 10 years on the downtown scene had led to melancholy reflections about what hip has come to. There was grumbling in the room along the lines of been-there/done-that. And if talk-show hostesses and prime-time starlets are hip -- Ricki Lake? Shannen Doherty? -- then what exactly can hip still mean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: If Everyone Is Hip . . . Is Anyone Hip? | 8/8/1994 | See Source »

...defense against the passion that threatens to overtake them. They are foreigners transplanted to a strange new land where the senses rule. Life is overpowering here: the sea is wilder than in England, the rain more forceful and abundant. The jungle teems with life, and the knee-deep mud threatens to hold the inhabitants fast. The majority of the colonists attempt to barricade against the overwhelming fecundity of the land, closing ranks and trying to maintain the forms of the English motherland. Only Baines and Ada meet the challenges posed by their surroundings. There is a passion in their...

Author: By Joel Villasenor-ruiz, | Title: Campion's 'Piano' Plays at the Brattle | 8/5/1994 | See Source »

...attack on right-wing broadcasters. Some of them, he exploded, "say that anybody that doesn't agree with them is godless . . . not a good Christian . . . fair game for any wild, false charge." Some of his advisers thought it was a mistake for the President to get into a mud-slinging match and urged him not to do it again. But with battle lines sharpening in Congress and both parties jockeying into position for congressional elections, it promises to be a long, hot summer on Capitol Hill -- and anything but a mild fall on the hustings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The White House Shuffle | 7/11/1994 | See Source »

...military policeman sent to Omaha Beach to direct traffic, recalled that there was no traffic to direct. He hugged the sand on the orders of Colonel George Taylor, commanding the 16th regimental combat team of the First Division. Looking up, Franklin saw the colonel caked with sand and mud to his shoulders, bawling the now famous charge: "There are two kinds of men on this beach: the dead, and those about to die. So let's get the hell out of here!" The colonel went up the ridge, but Franklin stayed to do his job, taking refuge in a captured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Still Brave at Heart | 6/20/1994 | See Source »

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